Is your mortgage coming up for renewal soon? If so, this is blog for you.   Earlier in the year, Canada's banking regulator, OSFI, made an announcement that they were going to remove the stress test qualifications for all insured mortgages coming up for renewal.   The purpose behind this was to help increase competition for homeowners so that they are not locked into their existing lender and can shop around with their mortgage broker to find a better interest rate.   This is great news for anybody who is looking to shop around and get a better interest rate, but only for those…

If you didn't already hear, Bank of Canada made a BIG announcement last week and made what’s called a ‘jumbo’ rate cut, reducing the prime lending rate by an entire half percentage point (0.50%)!   This is really important for anybody who's out shopping for a home, has an upcoming mortgage renewal, or is currently in a variable rate mortgage. Let's talk a little bit about what this means to you and how this affects your situation.     So instead of talking about specifically what yesterday's rate cut did by itself, let's talk about what all of the rate cuts in aggregate have done…